we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?

It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond household chores and family life. Their lives are fragmented... the cry not so much for a 'a room of one's own' as time of one's own. Conflict become acute, whatever it may be about, when there is no margin left on any day in which to try at least to resolve it.

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

It takes a long time for words to become thought.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.